Dive Into the Written Works Behind This Year’s Best Picture Nominees

If you enjoyed the motion pictures, you’ll love the books that inspired this year’s Oscar nominations.

Did you know that six of the nominated films were inspired by written works? Life of Pi and Les Misérables are well-known novels, but Silver Linings Playbook is also based on a book and three of the other nominees stem from a biography, a one-act play, and a magazine article. Lets take a look at the original words behind this year’s most critically acclaimed films!

Beast for the Southern Wild

The film starring Quvenzhané Wallis stems from Lucy Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious. Her play tells the story of a young child, Hushpuppy, who lives in the South with his dad and has to prepare himself for a life without grown-ups. Lucy cowrote the film version with the movie’s director, Benh Zeitlin, and the Beasts of the Southern Wild script expands on her original work.…